37 Bible Verses about parenthood
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Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
For God said:
Honor your father and your mother; and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.
You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will kill some of you.
The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:
The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise,
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must be put to death.
But you say, ‘Whoever tells his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple”—
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Then brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and put them to death.
Children, obey your parents as you would the Lord, because this is right.
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.
Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;
if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.
Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
The person who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; the person who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?
After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but His parents did not know it.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
Look, every life belongs to Me. The life of the father is like the life of the son—both belong to Me. The person who sins is the one who will die.
How absurd is the one who says to his father,
‘What are you fathering?’
or to his mother,
‘What are you giving birth to?’”
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.
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